Backlog battler Carl

Games I Beat in 2026 Game 1: Final Fantasy. Super charming and basic. Generic enemies mixed with future series staples. Good to see where it came from. Went in blind, made many mistakes. Chaos, especially in the Pixel Remaster, was one of the worst, hardest endgame bosses I've fought. However, it was one of the most satisfying. Overall: B+

@brad_polumbo @TaylorLorenz Honestly Taylor you’re the media everyone hates and you’re just lucky your opposition isn’t the Nazis you pretend then to be.

Me: "On Bluesky you posted an image saying 'CEO down!'" @TaylorLorenz: "That's just me saying waking up to seeing this meme being shared all over" Me: "But you did also post, quote, 'and people wonder why we want these executives dead...'" I challenge star journalist Taylor Lorenz on some of her most extreme takes in a new interview. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bra…

@JohnnyVomits @rawsalerts Remember when gays just wanted to have sex in their bedrooms. Now leftists want them to be made into events.

@rawsalerts They decided to be whiney bitches, lost the game and the Pride events still continued without them free of charge. Lol.

@JohnnyVomits @mike_smoli56473 @rawsalerts Naw just a sex pest

@mike_smoli56473 @rawsalerts No matter how much you freaks fantasize about it, I'm not gay. The fact that you look like the epitome of "stranger danger" while making this comment just makes all of this really fucking creepy.

@JohnnyVomits @CryptoJD_1 @rawsalerts Let’s be real here man leftist like you would care. It’s why you killed Charlie Kirk

@CryptoJD_1 @rawsalerts No. I wouldn't care. Privately owned company can do what it wants. I'm not one of you whiney bitches. Hope this helps clear things up for you. :)

If you wanna support both Mexicans and Asians today buy some Panda Express

@VideoGameHstry Wait this was real?

In 2008, Barack Obama became the first president to put ads in video games

Don't get me wrong, I don’t care if they block me on Twitter, but YouTube is different. I don’t really ever talk badly on there, and he literally costs Rand my superchats because he was having one of his “bad” days. Hell, it’s one of many reasons I started my no-name YouTube channel because I’m tired of listening to all the same views on YouTube.

@backlogcarl I’m also blocked lol and bitch jez blocked me here too

The Rand and Jez show is just unbearable the fact that 2 grown adults whine and cry non stop about Xbox is so weird to me……why not just leave the ecosystem?

@Rand_al_Thor_19 Jez blocked me In the chat so I can’t send you money anymore.

The XB2 Podcast is NOW LIVE!!! #Xbox WATCH HERE: youtube.com/live/_b1_yQgki…

@chaosprimeZ Kotaku is looking for engagement I see.

Kotaku wants Kratos gone in Laufey and to not turn up no more in the game. Thoughts? kotaku.com/i-hope-kratos-…

@airbagg3d Don’t give this loser any attention guys a leech

There needs to be a culling

@VVampire66918 I’ve noticed this as well. It seems many people in the space overexaggerate their fandom or demonstrate poor media literacy.

@backlogcarl Same goes with their understanding of other mediums like comic books and movies. They just watch or read without understanding anything or engaging with what is being said.

I can’t call some people larpers online because they played the games. However, it’s very clear some of them didn’t understand the story of the games they played.

This is man I have no words.

@AdamSchefter Nice good position to go to. Wish he was coming back but hope he can be rb2

Bills signed former Bears RB Ian Wheeler.

They say one thing, but everyone can lie. The game is still new, but Returnal still sold more and, if reports are true, had one-third of the budget. I'm not hoping for failure, but Sony gave them more budget and marketing. It looks like there's a $50+ million gap for them to even be considered breaking even.

@backlogcarl @superhys @alineaanalytics And it's probably surpassing returnal in sales, I don't take alinea numbers seriously seeing how wrong they are about game sales on console.

Here's how Sony titles are selling on PlayStation consoles this year (@alineaanalytics estimates). Since the start of the year, PlayStation has sold over 10M copies of first- and second-party games across PS5 and PS4. While revenue and price matter, of course, just 16% of those copies came from games that launched in 2026. The rest is catalogue. Ghost of Yotei is both the #1 Sony game on PlayStation by 2026 copies sold (1.1M) and 2026 revenue ($77.6M) in 2026. As we covered a week ago, Yotei’s well on its way to 5M lifetime since launching in October 2025. Gran Turismo isn’t the first name most people reach for when they list PlayStation’s marquee franchises, but it’s quietly always been one of Sony’s biggest sellers, and GT7 is no exception. Since its 2022 PS5 launch, GT7 has sold almost 12M copies, and it’s added another 835K this year alone. Some of that is down to a few steep discounts ($60 to $20), but GT7 is simply one of those titles that never stops selling, even at full price. Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 has sold another 699K copies in 2026 for $41M, most of those before it joined PS Plus Extra on 18 February. Since its October 2023 launch, Spidey 2 has now generated $1.2 billion on PS5, and it reliably spikes every holiday season. So I’m expecting it off PS Plus by December. Spidey’s top May crossovers were Fortnite (41% of that month’s Spider-Man 2 players) and Roblox (30%), so plenty of these are younger players, and plenty of those copies went under a Christmas tree (or equivalent for their holiday of choice). Astro Bot has turned into a genuine evergreen title, shifting over 600K copies this year (almost $33M), including roughly 100K in each of the last two months. Lifetime, it’s at 4.3M copies and around $250M. The crossover data here is telling: every single month this year, Astro Bot's top crossover game is Astro’s Playroom, a pre-installed game on every PS5. That suggests two things: 1. Astro Bot is being bought heavily by new PS5 owners. 2. The pack-in is doing a brilliant job converting them. Every month, Astro Bot’s other top games by MAU crossover are – without fail – Fortnite, Roblox, and Minecraft. So Astro Bot is quietly becoming one of PlayStation’s few genuinely family-friendly brands. I’d expect a film or TV announcement before long, and a big push – or perhaps a sequel – timed around the incoming PlayStation handheld. Launch-window sales still matter, obviously, but the centre of gravity is shifting. AAA single-player games are accumulating faster than players can get through them, and graphical leaps deliver less of a wow with each generation (hell, with each new big AAA game). What I’m saying here is that a brilliant five-year-old game now looks and plays close enough to a new one that the new release isn’t competing only with its peers, it’s competing with the entire, usually cheaper history of the medium. Every new game now launches into a market where its toughest rival might be a banger from 2021 at a third of the price. The incoming PlayStation handheld sharpens all of this. The Steam Deck proved that a portable actively drives new purchases of older games folks finally have a reason to play on the go. A PlayStation handheld pointed at that same back catalogue could turn Sony’s deep library from a preservation exercise into a genuine revenue engine, which is pretty much the Nintendo playbook. Nintendo is the gold standard at keeping old games selling at full price for years, and PlayStation’s unusually thin discounting for recent first- and second-party titles suggests Sony has been looking at this stuff closely. Evergreen is the future, and every new game competes with the best of the past. The great new releases will keep coming thick and fast. But the older ones, most of them every bit as good, are only going to get more important to the bottom line. The publishers who win the next decade will be the ones who treat their back catalogue as an asset to be monetised, not a vault to be archived. Capcom knew it, and others are catching wind. More over on Substack (check out my bio!). And please subscribe when you're over there!

If the Google numbers are right, Saros is costing Sony almost 50+ million in lost revenue. That's scary because it also had triple the budget of Returnal. I don’t want to deflect or use this as a gotcha, as Housemarque does make some great games. However, with Bluepoint's closure, I do worry these losses could be huge especially if the marketing budget claims are true, since they put a decent amount into this game. Also, I don’t know if Saros is good as I didn’t play it, but it didn’t get bad reviews.

@AguilarX Do you get paid to put these hashtags in your tweets or you just a a simp?

Thursday videogame haul #PS5 #PS5Pro

Well, I'm just looking at the budget and sales. From what I could find on Google (not sure how accurate, take it with a grain of salt), if the game sold 400k copies with a budget of 78 million USD (again from Google, not sure how accurate), it only made about 29 million back so far. That's also without marketing. So Sony could be taking a rather massive loss on its ROI. To compare, Return cost 25 million to make with much less marketing. Look, I'm not saying I want it to fail. However, after Bluepoint's closure, I'm just super worried Housemarque could be on thin ice.

@backlogcarl @superhys @alineaanalytics Returnal took 50 days to hit 500k

@Reddit_Retards They think a Cybertruck is bad, but a 300-pound man in a dress twerking with his balls hanging out is beautiful. Just remember that.

Is this supposed to be funny?

@chaosprimeZ They’re coming from weirdos who think dark ages sold badly and speculation

So where are the sources for ID being closed down coming from? I expect layoffs from every studio as they downsize, they the logical thi g to do as a business despite people crying about it. Its the fastest way to cut cost. Nut where is the ID Software info coming from?